Brian Stelter Biography
Brian Stelter is an American journalist working for CNN as the chief media correspondent and host of the CNN program Reliable Sources. Previously, he had also worked with The New York Times and as an editor of TVNEWSER.
Brian Stelter Date of Birth / Birthday
Stelter was born on September 3rd, 1985, in Damascus, Maryland, United States. He is 36 years old as of 2021.
Brian Stelter Measurements/Height
Stelter stands at an approximate height of 6 feet inches (1.83m).
Brian Stelter Partner/Wife
Stelter got married on February 22, 2014, to Jamie Shupak, a traffic anchor for NYI. Stelter has raised a Methodist and he is non-religious but the couple married in a Jewish ceremony with the intention of raising their children in Shupak’s Jewish faith.
They are blessed with two children so far, a daughter born on May 21, 2017, and a son born in August 2019. Jamie is an Emmy-nominated journalist working in New York City. She was born in Philadelphia and studied at the University of Maryland. Currently on-air as a traffic anchor for NYI, the New York News TV station.
Brian Stelter Kids/Children
Stelter is a father of two children. The first-born daughter was born on May 21st, 2017. His other child was born in August 2019. The family resides in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the upper west side of Manhattan.
Brian Stelter Relatives/ Family
Stelter is the son of Donna Stelter and Mark Stelter and has two brothers. His father, Mark died on February 10, 2001, but the cause of his death is not disclosed.
Brian Stelter Schooling/Education
Stelter attended Damascus School, where he graduated in 2003, and then went to Townson University where he served as editor-in-chief of The Towerlight from 2005-2007. As a student, he created TVNEWSER a blog about television and cable news which he later sold to Mediabistro and became a part of the ADWEEK blog network.
Brian Stelter Profession
Stelter was a media reporter at The New York Times before joining CNN in November 2013. He was also a lead contributor to the ‘Media Decoder blog and in 2007, he covered television and digital media for the Business Day and Arts section of the Newspaper.
Stelter published one of the best-selling books in 2020, “HOAX: Donald Trump, the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, Fox News” which explains the relationship between Trump and Fox news. Within two years of writing the book, Stelter spoke with over 250 current and former Fox insiders in an effort to understand deeper issues of work concerning Rupert Murdoch’s multibillion-dollar empire.
In the year 2013, he published The New York Times, also another best-selling book, “Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV”, about the morning news shows that are very competitive worldwide.
Stelter executively produced the HBO Documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News,” directed by Andrew Rossi, who had also featured Stelter in his documentary in the year 2011. He was also named “Fortune Magazines’s “40 under 40: Media and Entertainment.” and to Forbes Magazine’s “30 under 30: media” for three years.
He is a Board Member of the Baltimore Student Media, a nonprofit Media that publishes Towson’s independent newspaper, The Towerlight. While Stelter was a freshman at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, in January 2004, he created TV Newser, a blog which is dedicated to covering the television news industry. Later the same year July 2004, he sold it to Mediabistro.com but he continued to write and edit for the blog for three years until his graduation.
Brian Stelter Income
Stelter receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.
Brian Stelter Net Worth
Through Stelter’s career as an anchor, he has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $ 1 million and $1.5 million.
Brian Stelter Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Stelter is active on his social media accounts. He has about 1,900 friends on his Facebook Page, about 796,045 followers on his Twitter account, and around 40,915 followers on his Instagram account.